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ORIENTATION CONFERENCE
Civilians Join Military
Heads In Cruise To Wafch
Maneuvers Of Seapower
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Military Writer
Aboard The Aircraft Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 26.
A navy carrier task force sailed from Norfolk today to give De
fense Secretary Louis Johnson and other ranking U. S. military
officials an onboard look at how modern seapower operates.
Secretary of the Air Force Sy-I
mlngton; General Omar Bradley, I , . .
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of POUltd DeVdlllinCI
Staff; Chiefs of Staff of the three ; " .
services; General C. B. Cates, i U nAnn Cila O
commandant of the Marine corps,
and a group of civilians also were
to sit in on the one-day Naval
exercise off the Atlantic coast.
The civilians a bout eighty
renresentatlves of labor, educa
tion, religion, industry and other
units of the nation's economy lion asking parliment to approve
were finishing a week of tall:s devaluation of the pound,
with policy-making militarv leau-1 Parliament reconvenes tomor
eis In Washington and visits to ! row in an emergency three-day
two Air Force and Army installa-1 debate on the crisis raised by th?
tlons. The purpose of this trip, i cheapening of the pound from
as was that of previous ones, was to $2.80 eight days ago.
to let representatives of the tax- j H the labor party's motion
payers see how the military runs. ; should fail in the House of Com
and to learn at first hand its j mons. Prime Minister Attlee
problems. I would be forced to disband par-
This was the reason Johnson j liament and call an immediate
had Invited the civilian group to general election. The government
the fourth "joint orientation con- has a 60 percent majority In
ference" trip of the Chiefs of the House, and if unruly laborites
Staff, can be whipped into line, the gov-
Th defense secretary started ernment will win out. Some labor
these trips recently to bring the
heads of the three armed servic
es together informally to foster
closer coordination in the mill
tary department.
But today Johnson was working
the "orientation both ways. II ;
wanted the Air Force and Army
high command to see how he
Navv would fight another war-
something defense department
chiefs call "cross-education'
among the armed forces.
The "scuttlebutt" gossip
aboard this ship when she sail vl
was that neither Johnson nor
General Hovt Vandenberg. Air
Force chief of staff, had ever set
foot on a Navy flattop at sea.
Johnson arranged to have his
flattop foot-setting In a manner
usually reserved for old hands
in carrier operation.
Deal For Alcohol
Plant Uncertain
EUGENE, Sept. 26 P Un
less the War Assets administra
tion and the Hudson brothers of
Americus, Georgia, reach an
agreement by October 1. nego
tiations for lease of the Spring
field alcohol plant will be discon
tinued. This was revealed in a
letter from Representative Har
ris Ellsworth to the Springfield
Chamber of Commerce.
The letter said the Hudson
brothers had recently filed "a
letter of Intent" with the Federal
government setting the Octor
1 deadline.
The letter of intent Is actually
an offer by the Hudson brotheis
to lease the plant under certain
conditions. If the government
does not agree to the stipulations
by October 1 the Hudson broth
ers will consider negotiations ter
minated. It is possible the gov
ernment will submit an amended
offer, in which case the Hudson
brothers mav or may not file
another letter of intent. This type
of negotiation has been going f it
several months.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
"OME time early Friday morn
J ing the whole face of the
world, as we of this generation
. , .. . . I
have known It was changed.
Here is how it happened: j
In Washington, presumbaly at '
the White House, the cabinet ol
the President of the United states
was assemoiea in iormai session.
Its members, I
imagine, were j
nervous and worried, because ses
sions of this sort are held only
on MOMENTOUS occasions.
The door opened. The President
entered the room. His face, I am
sure, was grave as he made this
brief but shattering announce
ment: "WE HAVE EVIDENCE THAT
WITHIN RECENT WEEKS AN
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OREGON CHEST REQUEST
Basic Factors For Quota
Of $7,638 Suggested For
Douglas County Set Forth
Editor's Note: This is the first of twe articles explaining
hew the 1949 Oregon Chest quota was determined. The sec
ond will appear tomorrow.
Douglas county is being asked to raise $7,638 for agencies
of the Oregon Chest this year. How this quota was determined
makes an interesting story.
The Oregon Chest is a statewide agency supported by local
community chest drives in Portland, of course: In each of the
36 counties, and In the various cities Including Roseburg.
The total amount to be raised
for the Oregon Chest this vear is I , ... t, j
$166,658. The monev will be used ma"' 5A '""V? q.UO"
to support 15 agencies, including i '"' aand 0reRon Che5' 'I"0'" ,or
1 1 ir ( lull? t-iiuu vat ii ik "f,' 'I
cies. Mental Health association.
Oregon Prison association, and
the Y'.MCA armed services and
youth and government programs.
Seven factors were used by the
Oregon Chest in determining
each of the countv quotas.
c. TKh:n,M 'irn o, &
state quota committee.
These basic tactors were pay
rolls, bank deposits, effective
bin ing income, retail sales est.
i ws
I rihArSeoe' Amv4
, fcOBwrlTe JUVT.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-(P Bri
tain's labor government decided
today to stake its lite on a mo-
leaders worried that some of the
it-niMs in ineir ranns migm so
slain from voting and cut down
the labor margin.
1 he labor leaders also prepared
a motion today asking the house
to call on the British people lor
"their full cooperation with the
government in digging out of
a desperate trade deficit.
It promised the government
would continue "maintaining full
employment and safeguarding
the social services." These serv
ices include food subsidies, free
milk for school children, old age
pensions, medical treatment and
other welfare measures whicn
are popular with a large section
of the voters.
The motion gave no Indication
that the government plans any
economics other than a five per
cent cut in administration costs
asked by Chancellor of the Ex
chequer Sir Stafford Cripps, Bri
tain's austerity czar.
A copy of the motion was sent
to Winston Churchill, conserva
tive leader, who planned to dis
cuss it in private tonight with
his tory chiefs.
Trade Extension
OKd By Truman
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (JP
President Truman today sign
ed into law an extension of the
reciprocal trade agreements pro
gram untlf 1951. He said it will
aid "expanded world trade at a
time when it Is most urgently
needed." .
The legislation, extending the
law for the sixth time since it
was first enacted In 1934, gives
the president a free-hand In
working out tariff-cutting treat
ies with other nations.
Under the measure, the presi
dent can agree to cut U. S. im
port duties on articles from other
countries where those countries
make similar concessions to the
United States.
The extension Is until June 12,
1951.
Cordell Hull, former secretary
of state and credited with origi
nating the trade agreements
principle 15 years ago, was
present to watch the president
sign the bill.
Making one of his rare public
appearances and showing effects
of his long illness, Hull walked
in" be White House with the aid
of a cane to join other notables,
,t waj Hu,.5J firs, visi, , ,he
white House since V-J day.
Ford Automobile Plant
vVoricers In Eire Strike
CnDV T ; r,M Can, OC TO
h'..nril-pH pmnlnve. of' the
Ford automobile assembly plant
here struck today, halting pro
duction. The walkout was called last
week by the Irish Transport and
Generai Workers and ten other
unions. They charged the com
pany had refused to meet with
them to discuss overtime rates,
questions of seniority, setting up
negotiating machinery and "oth
er grievances."
Company officials declineu
comment.
"To secure the 1949 suggested
quota percentages." said Sell,
"an average was taken- of the
seven basic factors. This system
was used because it was believ
ed this would make an equitable
distribution among all counties."
Douglas county s 1919 suggest-
0".a 2,019percent of the
taotl state goal. The largest pet
centage that any one county must
raise, of course, is up to Mult-
I i Continued on Page Two)
Crackdown
Tht Weather
Fair with morning cloudiness
today and Tuosday.
Sunset today 4:04 p. m.
Sunrise tomorrow 4:05 a. m.
Established 1873
Labor, Industry Deadlocked
Lewis Keeps
Upper Hold On
Coal Producers
Steel And Auto Firms
Continut To Hold Out
Against Welfare Plans
Br Th Auorimlrd PrcM
The three ring bargaining
struggle between big labor and
big business tensed today with
the prospect of new action in
two of the arenas steel and au
tomobiles. The third contest, between John
L. Lewis' United Mine Workers
and the nation's coal producers,
marked time although Lewis held
a tight strangle hold on the operators-
The 480.000 UMW dig
gers began the second week of
a protest strike because their
welfare fund benefits have
ceased.
The CIO Sleelworkers' union
kept a steady pressure on the
resisting Big Steel employers, in
sisting on a company-paid pension-insurance
program to cost 10
cents per man hour of work. Negotiation-conferences
were re
sumed after a week-end recess,
with a strike of 1,000.000 steel
workers set lor 12:01 a. m., Sat
urday. James J. Thlmmes, an Interna
tional vice-president of the un
ion, said flatly yesterday he
thought there was ''little chance"
that the strike wouldn't come
off.
The sleelworkers' demand was
backed by a recommendation
made by a presidential fact-finding
board which investigated the
steel dispute.
Deadline Set Thursday
The fact-finding panel's report
(Continued on Page Two)
Cussing Idaho
Spuds Perilous,
Lawmaker Told
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (JP)
"A visitor to Idaho can cuss
our highways and our climate,
perhaps, but to say anything
which would discredit our fam
ous Idaho potato is to Invite
trouble."
That's Idaho talking back to
Rept. Klrwan (D.-Ohiol.
Kirwan, on a recent Idaho vis
it, cracked that you can find
baked Idaho potatoes on the men
us of every state of the union
except Idaho. The story got in
to the newspapers.
But it all wound up happily
today. Senator Taylor (D.-Ida.)
presented a box of fat Idaho bak
ers to Kirwan today, the gift of
Idaho farmers. The senator also
wrote the congressman a letter
containing the remarks quoted
above.
PRESQl'E. ISLE, Me.. Sept.
26 (,-P) Digging of Maine's 60.
400.000 bushel potato crop got
underway in earnest today.
With the digging season short
tened by rains and late arrival
of frost to kill plant tops, work
of getting the tubers out of the
ground was due to reach a fever
ish pitch this week.
It was estimated that three
weeks time would be required to
get the crop above ground.
New Altitude Record
Claimed By Woman Flier
READING, Pa.. Sept. 26 m
A 27-year-old Reading mother's
claim to a new world's altitude
record for light planes today
awaited official confirmation of
the National Aeronautics associa
tion. Mrs. Mildred Zimmerman land
ed her PA-11 at municipal airport
before a crowd of more than
40,000 persons after she said she
had climbed to 26.200 feet.
The old record of 21.900 feet
was set at Miami, Fla , last June
by Betty Skelton, of Tampa.
Man, Wife Injured When
Auto Hits Cattle Truck
SALEM. Sept. 26 (IP) A Eu-
gene motorist was thrown into a
j pool of burning gasoline and his
wife injured last night when their
j car struck a cattle truck near
' here.
i Critically burned was William
I Mellor. 47, of 730 River Rd., Eu
gene. He was thrown Into the
gasoline which had spilled from
a tank knocked irom nis car oy
the impact.
The truck was driven by Har
old Whitis. Seattle.
Copco Plant Destroyed
By Lightning-Set Fire
ALTVRAS. Calif.. Sept. 26.'!
A lightning bolt set off a fire
that destroyed the California-Oregon
Power company's Pine
Creek hydroelectric plant lale
yesterday.
The plant was an auxiliary unl
for the ritv of Alturas. It was val
ued at $75,000.
ROSEBURG,
Gun Accident
Takes Life Of
Yoncalla Man
Milton Leroy Marin, 22, ef
Yoncalla, died Saturday morn
ing from an accidental gun
shot wound, received while on
a fishing trip on the Umpqua
river below Reedsport, County
coroner Harry C. Stearns re
ported. According to Stearns, Morin
and a companion Eugene Merk,
also of Yoncalla, were shoot
tng at turtles along the river
bank, when Morin handed his
gun to Merk. As the latter grasp
ed the stock, the gun was ac
cidentally discharged. The but
let entered Morin's heart from
the left side.
Morin was born at Yoncalla
Sept. 21, 1927, and attended school
there. Surviving, besides his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Morin,
are live brothers and two sis
ters: Mrs. Lavon Boetteher, Ore
gon City; and Eldon, Wayne,
John, Patricia, Robert, and
Clifford Morin, all of Yoncalla.
Funeral services will be held
in the Methodist church at Yon
calla Tuesday at 2 p. m. The
Rev. Lloyd Fosner will officiate.
Interment will follow in the Yon
calla cemetery. Arrangements ar
in care of Stearns mortuary, Oak
land. German Prince
Shoots Himself
In Suicide Try
NEW YORK, Sept. 26. UP)
Prince Alexander Hohenlohe,
who had been brooding over a
separation from his wife, shot
himself last night in a suicide at
tempt, police said. I
The member of a bnce leading
German and Austrian noble fam
ily was reported 'n 'critical condi
tion today with a bullet wound In
the chest. The shot collapsed one
lung.
A police guard was posted at
the bedside of the 30-year-old
Hohenlohe. He was arrested on a
charge of illegal possession of the
pistol he used and of another
j found in his apartment.
Police said Hohenlohe had been
depressed since separation last
I spring from his wife, the former
Boyee inompson hcnulze. hne is
the daughter of a former wife o(
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.. ex
ambassador to Poland.
The prince's estranged wife and,
her mother hurried to the hospital
when Informed of the shooting.
Police reported that Hohenlohe
telephoned last night to his law
yer and friend, Francis P. Gar
van, telling him he intended to
shoot himself and giving instruc
tions about a sealed note In the
lawyer's possession.
Garvan tried to dissuade Hohen
lohe and failing picked up a
policeman and a doctor and sped
j to h's client's apartment. There
they found Hohenlohe Jying on
the floor with a .38 calibre re
volver beside him.
Three Arrested, Liquor
Seized In Portland Raid
PORTLAND. Sept. 36 (. -State
Liquor Control agents and
City Vice-Squad officers raided
the Melody club here early yes
terday, arrested two men and a
waitress and confiscated 52 bot
tles of whiskey.
Stale Agent Gordon McCreary
said one man was found mixing
drinks in the unlicensed club and
customers were being served In
.cream pitchers. Charged with
maintaining a common nuisance
and Illegal sale of liquor was Gus
Hiller. club manager. Patrick
Murphy and Carol Dow were
charged with Illegal sale of liq-
Barkley Aids Lady To
Celebrate Her Birthday
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26. P -Vice
President Barkley spent the
weekend in St. Louis, helping an
attractive friend celebrate her
38th birthday anniversary.
The vice president attended a
birthday party for Mrs. Carleton
S. Hadley Saturday night. Yester
day thev went to church together.
Mrs. Hartley's friends had specu
lated that the birthday party
might be the occasion for an-
i nouncement of the couple's en
' gagement. But it was not even
known today whether Barkley
had given Mrs. Hadley a present.
He has made several trips to St.
Louis recently to see her.
Concert Tour Planned
By Margaret Truman
NEW YORK, Sept. 26
Margaret Truman has been book
ed as guest soloist on an Ameri
can Broadcasting company pro
gram, "Carnegie Hall' on Dec.
20 her first New York profes
sional singing appearance.
The announcement of the
broadcast, made yesterday, said
it will be Miss Truman's onlv
radio appearance In 1949. She
Is starting on a concert tour of
27 cities next month.
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OREGON MONDAY, SEPT.
Russian Bid
For A-Bomb
Control Eyed
Proposal Opens Fresh
Chapter In World Peace
Efforts, Pravda Claims
By EDDIE GILMORE
MOSCOW, Sept. 26.-JP
Western diplomats here weighed
Moscow's latest bid for atom
bomb control today as they stud
ied Russia's claim she has had
atomic weapons for at least two
years.
The Russian statement Issued
yesterday hy Tass, official Soviet
news agency was the first offi
cial reaction to President Tru
man's announcement that evi
dence had been discovered of a
recent atomic blast in Russia.
It did not confirm or deny such
an explosion, but recalled the
statement of Soviet Foreign Min
ister Molotov on Nov. 6, 1947,
that the secret of the atom bomb
"has long ceased to exist." It
said Russia has had atomic wea
pons since that time.
Observers' attention was fo
cussed mainly on the last two
paragraphs of the Tass state
ment. These paragraphs read:
"It should be pointed out that
the Soviet government, despite
the existence in its country of
an atomic weapon, adopfs and
intends adopting in the future iis
atomic position in favor of the
absolute prohibition of the use
of the atomic weapon.
"Concerning control of the
atomic weapon. It has to be said
that control will be essential in
order to check up on fulfillment
of a decision on the prohibition
of production of the atomic wea
pon." (Russia long has urged out
lawing the atom borhb and ad
vocated controls to make the
ban stick. However, she has turn -
ed down the U. S. plan for de
tailed controls and Inspection).
First Believed Bluff
Referring to Molotov's 1947
(Continued on Page Two)
Lone Picket On
Watch At Cargo
Of Pineapple
THE DALLES, Ore., Sept. 26.
iTl A lone Hawaiian picket took
up his post today before the en
trance to the dock where $800,000
of pineapple awaits unloading.
Ired Kamahoahoa, a member
of Local 136 of the CIO Inter
national Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's union at Hono
lulu, came here from Seattle to
picket.
There wasn't, at the moment,
any question of crossing picket
lines, since no one was trying
io unioao Tne pineapple yet.
Robert Tarr, stevedoring suDer-
intendent for the Hawaiian pine-i we,j,jjng
apple company, said unloading! as MIoso drove up to the
wouldnt start today. But he said church with the bride-to-be, Jose
he was determined to unload the 1 phjne, 29, her mother, and
pineapple and have it trucked brother, Steve, he became ill and
to California for canning, Just as , lumped against the side of the
soon as stevedoring arrange- Car
menta are finished . j ij was almost time for the wed-
Our pineapple is not 'hot' can-. ding, so Steve sent his mother and
go, contended Tarr. I sister on Into the church with the
The CIO longsoremen contend promise that he and his father
that it is, however, and said they would follow soon,
would post more nickels along Steve Joined the gay wedding
with Kamahoahoa later on. I party at the reception. There he
Matt Meehan. International sec-j told a news man that onlv his
relary of the longshoremen, ! three brothers and himself knew
promised that the picketing i that the happy bride's father had
would be strictly orderly. Idled In the car as Josephine
The dock commission here walked down the aisle to be mar
agreed to permit the barge load ned to Sam Tomasello, 39, a
of pineapple to unload here, after j contractor.
the barge tried vainly to find "I'll tell the others about It to
an unpicketed Puget Sound dock. I morrow," he said.
ANOTHER JOLT
State Young Republicans
Score Proposal. Advocate
Curb On Federal Agencies
BEND, Sept. 26 .P The policy committee of the Oregon
Young Republicans Ignored officially at Its session here a charge
that power companies have packed lis rosier.
The committee wound up a two-day session last night after
approving a power policy which condemned the proposed Columbia
valley administration and favored curbs on federal agencies.
Some members were Indignant ,
over charges by John H. Travis,
Hood
cused
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,h,'. prJ,v"".ui"r.?. " .
duly influencing the political or
ganization by having key em
ployes active In the republican
unit. No formal action was taken
on the charges. Chairman Mark
Hatfield, Salem, said during the
power policy discussions that the
committee would "slick to poll-
,,.,...
The power policy resolution
called for early authorization of
protects In the coordinated pro-
gram of the armv corps of engl -
neers and the bureau of reclame
26, 1949
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LOVE TRIANGLE BLAMED IN PLANE CRASH J. A. Gu.y
(left) has been arrested by Quebec, Canada authorities and
charged with killing 23 persons by planting a home-made
bomb aboard an airliner which exploded in (light, in order
to get rid of his wife, Simard I right I, 29, and solve a "love
triangle." The other woman, Mrs. Marie Pitre, 41, confetied
that the expressed a parcel containing the bomb so that it
would be aboard the plane. (NEA Telephoto).
NEW URANIUM FINDS
Discoveries In Europe
Stimulate Predictions
Of Atomic Energy Race
LONDON, Sept. 26. (P) Reports of new uranium discoveries
on both sides of the Iron Curtain In Czechoslovakia and Spain
spurred talk of an atomic energy race now that Russia has atomic
weapons.
These were the weekend developments In Europe following
President Truman's announcement that the Russians had touched
off an atomic explosion recently:
Second $50 Fine
For Bad Conduct
Paid In Two Days
When neighbors complained of
the noise coming from his apart
ment at 304 W. 1st avenue N.
earlv Sunday morning, city police
1 arrested Raleigh Howard Bran-
non. 40. and charged him with
disorderly conduct. Chief Calvin
H. Balrd' reported.
Brannon apparently had been
fighting with his wife, Blanche,
the chief said. She was taken to
Mercy hospital. There was blood
splattered on walls of the apart
ment, Baird added.
Brannon was arraigned In mu
nicipal court this morning on a
disorderly conduct charge and
fined $50 By Judge ira B. Kimie.
He was committed to the city
Jail In lieu of payment of the
fine.
It was his second appearance
In court In as many days. Satur
day morning Brannon paid a $50
fine on charges of drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, the Judge
reported.
Father Dies Outside
Church As Daughter Weds
CHICAGO. Sept. 26. (Jft
Antonio Mioso. 62. couldn't keep
U. .t..,A irailopai' In moAt hll
j.,i,, m. .n.r (nr hw
FOR CVA
.1 V. - I . 1 i .11
"ral power enterprise, under
'he Federal Power commission
"or a suitable substitute as pro-
vioVd In the Hoover report."
The group suggested priorities
on the use of federal power be
listed: 1- Municipal corporations,
public utility districls and public
distributing agencies; 2 regu
lated I private) utilities: 3 other
public utilities and distributing
agencies, if any. and 4 -special
nr)iri,.. that use large power
blocks and are able to buy direct
1
I (Continued on Pagt Two)
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226-49
1. Tass, the official Soviet news
agency, asserted Russia has had
atomic weapons since 1947. It
again said the Soviet union was
ready for international control of
atomic energy hut didn't say what
kind ol control a point that has
balked American-Soviet agree
ment because previously Russia
has insisted on a veto power over
International Inspectors.
2. Franco Spain, already pos
sessing known uranium deposits,
was reported to have found new
veins of the ore from which atom
bombs are made. This prompted
sacculation as to whether Gen
eralissimo Franco would use his
uranium store In bargaining for
Improved relations with the west
ern powers.
3. A new uranium mine was re
ported ODened In Czechoslovakia
under the direction of Russian en
gineers. At least two Czech mines
are know n to be sending uranium
already to Soviet Russia.
4. German scientists and
uranium ore from east Germany
helped the Russians develop their
bomb, Informed American and
German sources reported.
What Kind Of Control?
Although the Tass announce
ment did not confirm or deny
President Truman's disclosure of
a recent atomic explosion In Rus
sia, It matterof-iactly declared
that Russia has had atomic
weapons since 1947.
Many western European states
men and diplomats privately took
the two-year bomb claim with a
grain of salt. But chief Interest
centered on the news agency's
statement that Russia still wants
international control of atomic
energv. The main question was:
Is Stalin getting ready to make
any concessions to the west in
(Continued on Page Two)
Stadium Plunge Fatal
To Princeton Professor
PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 26
l'i -Accidental dealh Is the of
ficial verdict of the dealh of Prof.
Frank D. Graham, internationally
known economist whb fell 70 feet
Saturday from the rim of Palmer
stadium.
Police said Graham, 59. and an
expert on International financial
affairs, plunnged to his death a
minute or so after seeing Prince,
ton university defeat Lafayette
college, 26-14.
Mrs. Mary Louis Graham, wife
of the Princeton professor, told
police she and her husband be
came separated in the crush of
22,000 persons leaving the big
concrete, horseshoe shaped stad
ium after the game.
Ex-Candidate Missing
On Tuna Fishing Trip
SILVERTON, Sept. 26 -.PI-Charles
W. Fantz, 40, Silverton
logger who ran for the State
House of Representatives last
year, has been missing on a tuna
fishing trip nut of San Francisco
for more than a week.
The Coast Guard was hunting
for the 40 foot boat today. Also
aboard was Harry Wergiey. 48.
j San Francisco.
Sixteen Girls Flee
From Hillcrest School
SALEM, Sept. 26. t,P Six-teen-sge
girls, age 15 to 17. fleH
the lawn of the Hillcrest Stale
school for girls yesterday after
noon. Also missing, from the
Slate Training school at Wood-
j hum. was a 16 year old Portland
noy.
Stale police said the girls were
missed at the supper hour counL
I
U. S. Security
Need Stressed
In Congress
Policy Of "Tolerance"
Threat To Our National
Existence, Is Assertion
Bv DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (
The question of Russian espio
nage and American security won
more emphasis from U. S. law
makers today than a renewal of
Soviet suggestions for world con
trols over the A-bomb.
Two weekend statements by a
Ealr of strategically placed mem
ers of Congress especially ar
gued for tighter curbs on spies
now that Russia has had ait
atomic blast of her own.
The arguments were advanced
by Rep. Velde (R-Ill), a former
G-man who worked on Soviet es
pionage cases, and Senator O'Con
nor tD-Md), acting chairman of
a Senate immigration subcom
mittee. Now a member of the House un-
American activities committee,
Velde talked of Introducing a reso
lution demanding that Congress
li vestigate "our entire security
setup."
Velde said there should be an
Inquiry, that the security record '
lx "disgraceful" and a "threat to
our national existence."
For fifteen years, he said, the
American government" from tha
White House down' has had an
official attitude of tolerance and
even sympathy for the views of
comnunists and fellow travelers.
As a result, he continued, espio
nage flourished and the Russians
undoubtedly gained three to five
years In manufacturing tha
atomic bomb.
Door Still Open
In a broadcast, O'Connor said
that under present laws the door
is open for "communist infiltra
tion under the guise of diplomatic
and semi-diplomatic status." Not
onlv rank and file subversives art
coming in, he said, but also hun
dreds of ring leaders.
As the agents of Moscow," he
said, "thev are the brains and tha
guiding force of subversive activ
ity In this country.
As to what can be done about
them, O'Conor said the main need
Is for a law to bar them from the
country or toss them out If they
get in, regardless oi tneir diplo
mat Ic status.
Secretary of State Acheson
has protested that such a law
would drastically Interfere with
the handling of foreign policy and
might result In a rupture of rela
tions with all communist-dominated
countries.
Senator McMahon fD-Conn),
chairman nf tha SAnsi-.Unn,-
(atomic committee meanwhile
labeled as "a phoney" the Russian
call for international control of
atomic weapons.
The Russian offer is for con
trol to be exercised by a commis
sion under the United Nations Se
curity council, in which Russia
has olten exercised a veto.
Senator Wat kins (RUtah)
called at Washington for a U. S.
Russian showdown on the ques
tion within the U. N. before Rus
sia can amass a stockpile of
A-bombs.
State Prison Convict
Fails In Escape Effort
SALEM. Sept. 26 f.Tt A
young State prison convict failed
In an escape attempt yesterday
as guards and state police con
tinued their search for two e
caped convicts.
Harry D. Gulovsen, 19, sent up
from Coos Bay to serve three
years for selling a mortgaged au
tomobile, was missing when the
5 p.m. check was made Sunday.
He was found sitting in a new
spillway under the prison wall.
He had a piece of Iron, but
hadn't used It yet to pry the bars
in the spillway.
Searchers for the two convicts
who escaped Thursday night
checked a flood of reports that
the convicts had been seen In
eastern Marlon county. But none
of the reports proved true.
The men are William John Per
kins, described as a dangerous
sex criminal, and Lee Gilbeit
Williams, a burglar.
Nelson Sawyers Goes To
Trial On Larceny Count
Jury was selected in circuit
court today to try Nelson James
Sawyers of Drain on a grand
Jury Indictment accusing him of
larceny. The Indictment alleges
that he stole a wallet containing
currency belonging to Mrs. Jessie
Dedrlck last March 5. Sawyers
entered a plea of Innocence May
24. He Is being represented by
Herbert W. Lombard, Cottage
Grove lawyer.
FEDERAL JOB FILLED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (.fn
President Truman today nom
inated Lowell B. Mason for a
new seven-year- term as a mem
ber of the Federal Trade com
mission. Mason la a legal resident
of Illinois.
Lvlty Foct Rant
By U T. Relzenatetii
For her year's record ef civic
and Industrial progress and rec
reational activities Roteburq Is
entitled to throw out Her chest.
Now that annual community
charity beckons, the should tots
full measure Into the chest.